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big brother: where’s cambridge
this is the first and only interesting thing i have seen come out of big brother: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/people/big_brother/spencer_conversation.shtml
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a very useful unix command
http://www.meyerweb.com/other/humor/pshift.html
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yay! i’m back!
the flight back was terrible. the bulkhead seat that i was assigned was not viable; about 3 hours into the flight i got cramped and coulf not sit in it any more because it was crushing my pelvis from side-to-side. i spent the remainder of the flight spending short stints in the chair, walking around
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last day in ca
just finishing up here at MTV B29 – the SunLabs building that used to be my HQ when I, too, was a Labs employee. Spent yesterday in a whirl ; more TLC break out session in the morning, then tried to locate a colleague (Iain) who relocated to the USA a few years ago. No
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urgh
Great dinner last night, enormous steak at some place called Birks (sic) with twenty of the other SunPS, ES, and other miscellaneous ESTC people, and that great hyperactive ferret of network love Dan tagged along too. I shall spare you from tales of the anguish of participating in focus groups – the team was great,
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i just love this line from a recent sec-int posting…
If it quacks, it must be Trusted Solaris … – so, so apt.
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norway followup
re: http://onestop.sfbay/security/weblog-2002-06.shtml#20020611135523 Hackers unlocking Norway’s history E-mail messages from more than 100 good Samaritans flooded the Ivar Aasen Center for Language and Culture starting Thursday afternoon after the organization called for aid in hacking into one of its own databases to which the password was lost, said a message posted to the center’s Web site
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more on ripa
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:02:10 +0100 To: UKcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk From: Richard Clayton richard@highwayman.com Subject: Home Office RIP website The Home Office RIP website http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2002/draft/20022322.htm has today finally been updated to include a pointer to “The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communications Data: Additional Public Authorities) Order 2002” (a mere 5 days after it came out) However,
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tlc conference, day 2
my hotel bed is deeply weird – lumpy and high on one side, and low and squishy on the other. i worked out that the low and squishy side is the one from which the TV is most easily visible, implying that (a) most people in hotels watch TV from ther bed, and (b) the
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2am uk time…
…and i am starting to feel it. i’m gonna set my alarm when i get back to the hotel and try to watch the football on ESPN, and then do it all again, tomorrow. not sure how i am gonna fill this evening, though.